Actually, I think the Japanese tankoubon don't include the splash page text either. They're only in the weekly Shounen Magazine publishings. So if you haven't been following the series in the magazine, there's no way to know what the texts were. I do recall a site that was linked from here a long time ago that had a listing of all of them, but I'm not sure where that link is anymore...
Or like Jeannette said, you could just look at the scanlations or ask someone who has them to copy them. ^^;